Felino A. Soriano

Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974), is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults.  He has authored 28 collections of poetry, including “Construed Implications” (erbacce-press, 2009) and “Delineated Functions of Congregated Constructs” (Calliope Nerve Media, 2010). His poems have appeared at Calliope Nerve, Unlikely 2.0, BlazeVOX, Metazen, Otoliths, and elsewhere.  He edits & publishes Counterexample Poetics, an online journal of experimental artistry, and Differentia Press, dedicated to publishing e-chapbooks of experimental poetry.  In 2010, he was chosen for the Gertrude Stein "rose" prize for creativity in poetry from Wilderness House Literary Review.  Philosophical studies collocated with his connection to classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences.  His website explains further: www.felinoasoriano.info.

Approbations 427

—after John Coltrane’s But Not For Me

The melodious replication of desired otherness. 

Arranged in

mind’s segregated captions, captive

by preferential differences

            often

rearranging hankering of early morning

offerings.  Change

becomes altered

                                    silence of a tongue’s organic

science, saying

into the listening virtue of attention’s innate proclamation,

                        I

cannot deliver self

                                    into terminal explanations of various

non prolific methods.  

Approbations 428

—after The Gene Harris Quartet’s Sweet and Lovely

Afternoon absence, time’s

wholeness        fractioned

dissipating versions of rebirthing

            syncopated phonations.  Of rain’s

                                    slanting

                                                interpreted entrance

onto grounds of assorted

options and topographic voices—

sounds of softened rhythms, partial positional

            deity of noise

dawn opening angular acceptance,

apparition of moments

articulating past reiterations.

Approbations 429

—after Fred Hersch’s A Lark 

Opens              on wind’s winding

syllables.  Upon entrance

                        winged verbs

carry contours into feed, rest, absolute

manipulation.  Yellow of your thickened neck

                                    shifting

                        versions of beauty’s fallacy of end

showing amid softened sorrow

                                                                                                away

you’ve become form of absence

relegated to memory’s crawling

into sight.  

Approbations 430

—after Bill Evans’ Time Remembered

Silent, because alone

is the populous hour

time describes as imperative

understanding.  When childhood

earns passé versions of exhausted

reliance, adulthood renders

colorful tributes

essential to ascertaining entertaining symbols

epitaphs burgeon wearing

legged syllables

used, in the ambulatory description

existence involves amid voluntary change.  

Approbations 431

—after Henry Threadgill’s Zooid’s Did You See That

Version of winged breaths

rise into dancing tribute

of sacred anonymity?  Below

cultural dislocation, earth and

air’s familial conurbation

often erupt in the solitude

conversation of prosodic

freelance, softly visiting.  Renditions

of naming optional skeletons,

those of bodies gone

toward extinct horizons, gluing

landscapes amid feet of stagnant

abbreviations.